-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Six members of the Newtown Strong team who ran the Boston Marathon on Monday are OK , according to a Facebook post from the group .

`` Members of the Newtown Strong team which ran in today 's marathon are safe . All runners completed the race before the explosions happened , '' the post said .

The runners ran the 26.2-mile event to honor the 26 people who were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14 . The Newtown Patch reported there were six runners from the town in the race , including Laura Nowacki , whose daughter survived the shooting .

Marathon organizers held a 26-second moment of silence before the race to honor the first graders and educators who were killed by Adam Lanza and dedicated the final mile to the victims .

The Newtown Strong Fund is a scholarship fund for the siblings and relatives of the victims of the school massacre .

Lanza also killed his mother , Nancy , at the family 's home .

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Runners ran the 26.2-mile race to honor 26 victims killed at Sandy Hook Elementary

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Newtown Strong 's Facebook post says all of them are safe

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The group raises money for siblings of those killed in December